Use of fallout 137Cs for documenting the chronology of overbank sediments from the river Sava, Croatia, and interpreting their geochemical patterns

Environmental Geology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 475-481

  Pavlovic, Gordana ^a   Barisic, Delko ^b   Lovrencic, Ivanka ^b   Orescanin, Visnja ^b   Prohic, Esad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

137Cs; Factor analysis; Hg Pb Ba anomaly; Overbank profiles dating; Pb Zn correlation; River Sava; West Croatia

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; CARBONATES; CESIUM; DEPOSITION; FLOODS; LEAD MINES; MERCURY (METAL); RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; SILICATES; SOILS; ZINC;

CHRONOLOGY; POST-DEPOSITIONAL REDISTRIBUTION; SLOVENIAN DRAINAGE BASIN; SOIL PROFILE;

CATCHMENTS;

CESIUM ISOTOPE; DATING METHOD; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FLOOD DEPOSIT; OVERBANK SEDIMENT;

CROATIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SAVA RIVER; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 14644442362     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-004-1167-0     Document Type: Article

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